Joseph Conrad - (Conrad, Eastern and Western Perspectives) by Wieslaw Krajka (Hardcover)

About the Book

Contains essays from the Fourth International Joseph Conrad Conference, entitled "Conrad's Polish-Ukrainian Footprints," organized by the Centre for Conrad Studies of the English Dept. of Maria Curie-Skodowska University, and held at Lublin and Kazimierz Dolny, June 19-23, 2006.

Book Synopsis

Thirteen contributors from a variety of backgrounds tackle the use of irony, contrast, narrative, themes of belonging, Englishness, imperialism, portrayals of women, and conceptions of truth and evil as they were expressed in the work of Joseph Conrad.

Wieslaw Krajka expands Conrad criticism to explore the modernist's mastery of literary technique and his contribution to visions of humanity. Krajka's collection opens with two essays that explore the identity of Conrad, his characters, and his narrators, and then engages with the ideology, philosophy, and ethics of Conrad's fiction, especially the balance he strikes between literary technique and the meanings those techniques convey.

About the Author

Is profesor emeritus at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland. He is the author of Isolation and Ethos: A Study of Joseph Conrad (1992) and editor of Various Dimensions of the Other in Joseph Conrad's Fiction (2020), Some Intertextual Chords of Joseph Conrad's Literary Art (2019), Joseph Conrad's Authorial Self. Polish and Other (2018), among others, and the editor of the series Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives.